1. The Faculty Activity Information Reporting Project

2. Objectives
Provide faculty with easy to use tool to document academic activities and generate digital CVs
Provide administrators with web-based reporting for P&T, faculty review, accreditation

3. What’s been done Consulted with campus provosts & IFC
Directed environmental scan of industry
Conducted focus groups & generated common themes
Presented findings to provosts & IFC
Conducted open forums on each campus & collected feedback
Collected additional feedback from other stakeholders such as librarians and IR.
Provide feedback to provosts & IFC
Drafted a Request for Proposals (RFP)

4. University of Missouri’s Current Faculty Accomplishment System (a.k.a. FAS)
“Front Page”
Courses
Publications

5. Environmental Scan Institutional status Examples of commercial apps
We are not alone in this need
Examples of commercial apps
Activity Insight by Digital Measures
Faculty 180 by Data 180
Research in View by Thomson Reuters
Pricing structures vary
By FTE or by unit

6. Focus Groups Conducted two per campus Discussed current state of FAS
faculty and administrative
Discussed current state of FAS
likes and dislikes
Generated common themes
FAS Focus Group Themes
Moving forward
wants, needs and concerns

7. Themes

8. Customization & the User Interface
Doesn’t fit faculty who do clinical teaching and community service.
Our faculty experience frustration from having to choose from fields that are not intuitive and/or applicable.
We have someone in our office who does the data entry for our CVs because the user interface is so unfriendly.
Data entry was time consuming and slow.
There would be a value to have a system that could be customized to fit each department/division/unit.

9. Accountability What is the purpose? Who sees this data?
Why do we need a system-wide solution?
Does anyone at System/Jeff City look at this data?
Our department has not accessed FAS in five or six years.
College looks at data but faculty get little feedback.
What are my incentives other than I won’t get my raise?

10. Functionality
The system should be able to import from internal/external databases
Musts haves include assessment, customizable, align with P&T process, annual reviews/reports, accreditation, etc.
Output to faculty web profiles.
It must generate a variety of CVs and bio-sketches. i.e. for NIH, NSF, full CV.
It should be able to function as a repository for file storage i.e. pdf, mp3, wav, doc, etc.
A new

11. Features

12. Baseline Needs for Faculty
Generate Digital CVs
Follow P&T workflow steps
Import Bibliographic Data
EndNote, Ref Manager, Zotero
Import from External Databases
Scopus, PubMed, etc.
Direct feeds from UM Data
SIS, Grants, etc.
Maintain Document Repository
Syllabi, Recordings, etc.

13. Digital Curriculum Vitae Example
Output in Word, HTML (CV, BioSketch) or PDF
Click on CV link above for a digital CV example with embedded documents
Set CV reporting range for courses or select all
Hyperlinks to take you back to your profile
Use a template or select sections desired for CV

14. Baseline Needs for Administrators
Customizable Reporting
Generate Ad Hoc Reports
Accrediting Reports
P&T and Annual Faculty Reviews
Course Data Reporting
Grants & Publication Information

15. Additional Features Auto-Generate Web Profiles
Department/College, Programs, Organizations
Generate Bio Sketches from Preloaded Templates
NSF, NIH, USDA
Report Templates can be defined
System, Campus, College, Department

16. (timeline subject to change)
What’s left to do
Product demos with campus presentations & web feeds – Fall 2013
Vendor selection – Fall 2013
Phase-In Implementation – Fall 2013 & Spring 2014
Full Implementation – Summer 2014 & Fall 2014
(timeline subject to change)